Dairy
Global milk production increased by 3.4% in January-February 2016, mainly due to strong production growth in the EU. This was...
Agri-Business
A €50m fund for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking to buy or lease farm machinery has confirmed a sixth...
Pig/Poultry
Manor Farm is to invest €25m over the next five years to expand the output of its Cavan-based facility. It...
The air-dried protein product snack beef jerky was the “big breakout product” of a Euromonitor International report on sweet and...
Beef
A Sinn Féin County Councillor has said the re-occurrence of dumped cattle carcasses in north Louth has left the farming...
The Department of Agriculture has confirmed that farmers will soon be able to opt out of paying ICBF levies when...
German multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer has recorded first quarter group sales of €11.8m. For the quarter ending March...
Farmers paid €855,000 in 2014 to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) when ordering cattle tags, but nowhere on the...
The US Department of Agriculture has predicted US beef imports will drop 16% this year, resulting in their lowest level...
Group sales of Swiss agrochemical and seed manufacturer Syngenta dropped to $3.7 billion for the first quarter of 2016, according...
Environment
Ireland today committed to reducing greenhouse gases by at least 40% by 2030, by signing the Paris Agreement on climate...
Macra na Feirme has said it is outraged and disappointed that the acting Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, has decided...
Northern Ireland animal nutrition company Devenish has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade. The company is...
Kevin Lane, Ornua CEO, would love to say that there is an imminent [milk price] recovery around the corner but unfortunately supply...
Ornua paid out €9.2m in directors fees and global executive pay over the last two years, according to Ornua’s annual...
EU-Mercosur trade deal negotiations may be helping to fuel the fall in UK beef prices in recent weeks. Chairperson of...
Tillage
U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2015/16 are projected to be 10 million bushels higher than last year, making it the...
UK-based Boparan Private Office is to acquire the turkey business of Monaghan-based Grove Farm, subject to clearance from the Competition...
